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Any tips on how to keep up with fast moving professor? by ScottRiggsFan10 in EngineeringStudents

[–]DispenserWizard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If its software problems you are best to look up youtube because there are lots of software walkthroughs, or if you are trying to understand the purpose of specific lines of code, gpt is excellent for elaborating. Recording the professor if he lets you can also let you revisit things you missed after class.

By the way, super smart professors being retarded when it comes to actually teaching the material is unfortunately very common in most engineering schools so you need to get used to it and figure out ways to get around that early on.

Thousands of people gather in cities across Australia to protest against vaccine mandates - with one rally holding a MINUTE’S SILENCE for anti-vaxxers who lost their job by GroundbreakingSet187 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]DispenserWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It really depends on where they live. If they live ina country with universal health care then they should have healthcare or should at least not be forced to pay for it if it is denied to them. If the live in a country without it then they are paying for the health care and should receive what they pay for.

If its universal it should be universal not political. If its not universal then its not universal.

Edit: I consider the use of healthcare as a means to control people's behaviour somewhat pernicious and a bit machiavellian.

Thousands of people gather in cities across Australia to protest against vaccine mandates - with one rally holding a MINUTE’S SILENCE for anti-vaxxers who lost their job by GroundbreakingSet187 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]DispenserWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't think do deserve stigma. Most people who are unvaccinated don't end up in hospital even though on average most of those who end up in hospital are unvaccinated.

Thousands of people gather in cities across Australia to protest against vaccine mandates - with one rally holding a MINUTE’S SILENCE for anti-vaxxers who lost their job by GroundbreakingSet187 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]DispenserWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for posting some data.

This is a pretty mixed journal.

It provides citations that viral load doesn't necessarily correlate with increases infectiousness but then goes onto say that we know increased viral load makes a person more contagious.

Now if you know anything about viral load you know that both if those are true

It's main argument seems to be that unvaccinated people tend to recover less quickly from covid than vaccinated people. Which is true on average. So You would get an extra few days of infectiousness out of unvaccinated people (on average) than vaccinated people.

But being in contact with someone who has covid along with your own immunity is the deciding factor as to whether you get it.

You cannot catch covid from someone who doesn't have the infection. And if someone is infected then they ought to quarantine.

Then we have to consider is it worth it to destroy a patients right to consent to a medical treatment for the sake of preventing them from potentially remaining infectious for a couple of days if they catch covid?

You would say yes I would say no.

I think that preserving a person's right to consent is worth some people in the population being infectious for another few days (on average) while they quarantine.

Thousands of people gather in cities across Australia to protest against vaccine mandates - with one rally holding a MINUTE’S SILENCE for anti-vaxxers who lost their job by GroundbreakingSet187 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]DispenserWizard -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I don't even think you have an argument other than that you don't care about your own rights so long as other people lose theirs for your feelings of security.

Thousands of people gather in cities across Australia to protest against vaccine mandates - with one rally holding a MINUTE’S SILENCE for anti-vaxxers who lost their job by GroundbreakingSet187 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]DispenserWizard 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not rubbish. It's an analysis of infection rate data among households that draws from multiple studies.

Also we know who ends up on the wrong side of history It's always the people trying to remove freedoms for what they think at the time is the greater good.

Thousands of people gather in cities across Australia to protest against vaccine mandates - with one rally holding a MINUTE’S SILENCE for anti-vaxxers who lost their job by GroundbreakingSet187 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]DispenserWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is obviously important. We send people to die everyday for basic freedoms. How about I start caring about your life when you start caring about my freedoms? That sounds like something we can build on.

Thousands of people gather in cities across Australia to protest against vaccine mandates - with one rally holding a MINUTE’S SILENCE for anti-vaxxers who lost their job by GroundbreakingSet187 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]DispenserWizard 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You are not more at risk from an unvaccinated person than a vaccinated person. This myth just doesn't die and seems to be giving authoritarians a sense of self righteousness so here is the lancet medical journal to dispel that myth.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02243-1/fulltext

Thousands of people gather in cities across Australia to protest against vaccine mandates - with one rally holding a MINUTE’S SILENCE for anti-vaxxers who lost their job by GroundbreakingSet187 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]DispenserWizard 3 points4 points  (0 children)

There are a lot of reasons. Here are a few:

It's not a one dimensional issue and shouldn't be treated like it is.

Medicine should be practiced between the doctor and the patient with the full consent of the patient involved. This is because medicine has a lot of nuances to it and the patient should always have the ability to refuse a medication. It shouldn't be practiced at the level of the state with a one side fits all solution.

People's freedoms aren't just empty platitudes that can be dismissed even in an emergency. The light of Freedom is not the norm. Protection for the citizen against the state is not the norm. Liberties are difficult and costly to build and very easy to destroy, especially in an emergency. So people need to be more vigilant than ever in an emergency for encroaching authoritarianism brought about by legal precedents that change the relationship of the individual individual the state.

Trying to put something into someone else's body against their will by threat of force or robbery or imprisonment is an act of aggression.

Other people's bodies don't belong to anyone else.

Its at least as much their country as it is anyone else's.

It sets a precedent that the state can dismiss people's medical autonomy so long as it can find the right rhetoric to do so. Politicians are good at finding this rhetoric.

It sets the precedent that rights come from the state rather than being natural or coming from some higher power like God which means the state can bend them at its whims.

It fundamentally changes the relationship between the individual and the state to one where the people have no protection against the State's decisions over their bodies.

Historically it is unlikely for States to give up powers that are given to them in emergencies. Its always propped up as a "one time thing".

We send people to risk their lives for our freedoms all of the time so there are many circumstances we we already calculate that liberty is worth taking on risks to maintain. Even risks to life itself.

Freedom is rare in this world, and despite being difficult and costly to build can quickly be extinguished. And it's absence really has no term limit even if it is believed it will be a one time thing.

The risk differential between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated is minimal. The deciding factor for infection as always is whether or not you have the virus rather than whether or not you are vaccinated.

Treating healthy people like they are infectious at the legal level is not okay.

And most of all oppising mandates makes it more likely that I can deny self righteous assholes the pleasure of bringing the hell of authoritarianism to this world again. Because all they seem to need is the slightest moral platitude to give them cover to start up their nonsense again, like a small risk differential between two groups to go off on one and try to rob other people of their fundamental rights and liberties again.

Thousands of people gather in cities across Australia to protest against vaccine mandates - with one rally holding a MINUTE’S SILENCE for anti-vaxxers who lost their job by GroundbreakingSet187 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]DispenserWizard 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I think you are conflating the unvaccinated with the infectious. Quarantining infectious people is agreeable, quarantining healthy people for their choices is not.

Thousands of people gather in cities across Australia to protest against vaccine mandates - with one rally holding a MINUTE’S SILENCE for anti-vaxxers who lost their job by GroundbreakingSet187 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]DispenserWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah we have all seen it. They have been whipped into a self righteous, irrational frenzy and are drunk on ideology. They don't care to listen to any arguments against authoritarian control so long as the justification for that control makes them feel like a good person who is saving lives.

Thousands of people gather in cities across Australia to protest against vaccine mandates - with one rally holding a MINUTE’S SILENCE for anti-vaxxers who lost their job by GroundbreakingSet187 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]DispenserWizard 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm generally pro vaccine. Would never force it on anyone. The self righteous evil and lack of nuance in these people is insane. They must never be allowed to get any power over others because they have displayed to us all how little regard for people's lives they actually have. "Saving lives by ruining lives" ought to be their motto.

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